
No one in Germany can more justifiably call himself an independent filmmaker than Lothar Lambert: 41 films to date since 1971, almost all financed out of his own pocket, as producer, director, screenwriter, actor and, time and again, as editor, cameraman, sound man and distributor. Cinema about sex and longings, self-realization and psychological deformities, desires, the weal and woe of the little-noticed in the (initially only West) Berlin urban jungle. And it is as authentic, shocking and tragicomic as you rarely find in this country. Because they were unusually weird and "dirty" in terms of content and form - especially for the well-behaved German standards - Lambert's works were quickly classified as "underground" in the seventies. And have recently been increasingly ignored by critics and film historians. Having long since become documents of the zeitgeist and thus of contemporary history, it is long overdue to (re)discover these works.

Du Elvis, Ich Monroe

1 Berlin-Harlem

Nachtvorstellungen

Fucking City

Drama in Blond

Faux Pas de Deux

Tiergarten

Die Alptraumfrau

Ein Schuß Sehnsucht - Sein Kampf

Gestatten, Bestatter

Fräulein Berlin

In Haßliebe Lola

Verdammt in alle Eitelkeit

Ich bin, Gott sei Dank, beim Film!

Paso Doble

Blond bis aufs Blut

Und Gott erschuf das Makeup

Gut drauf, schlecht dran

Alle meine Stehaufmädchen - Von Frauen, die sich was trauen

Die Liebeswüste

Now or Never

Liebe, Tod und kleine Teufel

Du Elvis, Ich Monroe

Polizeiruf 110

Eine Tunte zum Dessert

Nachtvorstellungen

Fucking City

1 Berlin-Harlem

Kısmet Kısmet

Ein Schuß Sehnsucht - Sein Kampf

Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn

Verdammt in alle Eitelkeit

Die Alptraumfrau

Blond bis aufs Blut

In Haßliebe Lola

Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe

Now or Never

Lost and Found in Underground: Lothar Lambert's Psycho City